The anti-Bushie left tosses Cindy aside
(At least the hippies could love.)
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With a quick post to a lefty blog – "Good Riddance Attention Whore" -- Cindy Sheehan has quit the Democratic Party and the anti-Bushie/anti-war movement. The spirit of the movement has been crushed, or something similar. RedState's Erick Erickson, who first called her a "media whore," speaks for many of us on Cindy's Quit-a-Thon.
Cindy is somewhat confused though, or maybe addled. Living in a ditch can do that to one's psyche if it be fragile.
Please do read on….
At dailykos (linked above), Cindy posts:
Camp Casey has served its purpose. It’s for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford, Texas? I will consider any reasonable offer. I hear George Bush will be moving out soon, too...which makes the property even more valuable.
Frank James of the ChiTrib blog The Swamp observes:
Actually, I hadn't heard Bush would be selling the ranch in Crawford. Mark Silva, my colleague and master Swamp blogger, who covers the White House hasn't heard that one either. Word is the Bushes will be keeping the ranch post presidency.
So Sheehan's real-estate tip doesn't sound all that solid.
Perhaps Cindy had confused herself into believing that the President's Prairie Chapel Ranch was public property, similar to Camp David. Perhaps no one informed her otherwise.
She's been used, but we knew that. The anti-Bush lefties don't give two damns about much of anything, and certainly not a grieving mother.
You know, I think this is an attempted exorcism of Cindy's own inner demons. She knows she was being used, and she recognizes that all she has done so far has been a farce. In reaction to the loss of her son, she's chased away her husband, her family, and her country. For NOTHING. Seeing this, she's chasing away that which made her lose everything, and the poor woman is now nothing. She's trying to restore her integrity, and like an idiot, she thinks the only way to do so is to reject.
If she wants her integrity, she has to embrace. She has to embrace her lost son, embrace his fellow soldiers, and embrace what's so right about what we're trying to do in Iraq.
Again, though, she's an idiot.
But the real problem, the real poison, is the lefty machine. (At least the hippies could love.) This machine, and its mindless cogs, feasted on Cindy, spat her out, and are now in the process of belching loudly. They'll look for the next brief focus for the next irrational rage, and they'll attack like a mob with pitchforks. The herd mentality can be dangerous if used by folks who love to push buttons just to check the reaction.
I wish Cindy peace. I hope she is able to wholly separate herself from this farcical fanaticism used as a mask for ill-focused hatred. To slip into the hippie vernacular, I dig redemption, man.
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"Wubbies World" - MSgt, U.S. Air Force (Retired): "Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know." -Jer 33:3-
... go sell your so-called "Please be better than us!" nonsense elsewhere.
George W. Bush: He's A Folder ... Not A Fighter.
If you can't be better than that, don't. I'm not defending her by any means, but that doesn't mean I have to sink to the level of calling her silly names like media whore.
I don't engage in name-calling.
But I'm not going to stand by and watch somebody from a side which engages in name-calling and slander as a matter of course, and without hesitation or apology, castigate somebody else for doing the exact same thing.
It's like bringing a gun to a knife fight and being outraged that your opponent brought his along as well.
You don't have the credibility to tell anybody off about name-calling.
George W. Bush: He's A Folder ... Not A Fighter.
but it describes her perfectly. What she did was crass, and the best term to encapsulate her public attributes is a crass one.
When the bulbs flashed, she jumped. The press and the anti-Bushie lefties made her feel important. For at least that instant in her life, and unfortunately so, she was a media whore. Period.
It's not as concise, but how about the description that's favored by my Marine Corps families...
Worthless, brain-dead, anti-American bit*h who used her son's heroic death to call attention to her Marxist, anti-military views while referring to the people who killed Casey as "freedom fighters".
This is the edited version. The full version is about 75 words longer. Red State has posting guidelines, 2/4 MarineMoms doesn't.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
....what it's been like being in Cindy's shoes. First, she was the "it" girl. I am sure she believed that it was something inherent in her: peace, love, wisdom, experience that no one else had.
If you watch Rosie O'Donnell's video-blog, linked at Drudge, you can see why someone like that believes she is on exactly the right path. Rosie sits at the computer with a loyal friend by her side, who is finishing her sentences, repeating her complaints, magnifying the supportive comments, and tsk-tsking the harsh ones. It probably seems real to Rosie and her friend, not to interact with people who view life differently and are un-affected enough to say so, and to be surrounded by people whose job or friendship means building Rosie up at every turn.
Probably similar for Cindy, formerly an ordinary person, having risen to the ranks of "mother", and then forgetting whose water she was supposed to be totin'. I guess it was MoveOn.inc, not MoveOn.org. I hadn't until now, but for the moment, I feel badly for her. I say for the moment because in this moment she's not undermining the safety of our troops, our family members.
I am sure she's already been through the worst of it. And she probably won't change her perspective on the war. But I certainly hope she'll take the path of healing for her own sake. And...it would be too much to hope for, but icing on the cake, to hear her apologize for some of what she's done.
"Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love"
Perfect last words from Ms. Sheehan. Her son would be as ashamed as the rest of her family is. She has truly made a mockery of his death. We should all remember that while Ms. Sheehan is a lunatic, her son is a true hero who died fighting for this country.
I would like to make one more comment about what she said. She talked about the "peace movement." Conservatives really need to speak up about how our movement is a "peace movement" that actually gets results. Peace through strength. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. Sometimes wars need to be fought to save the lives of more innocent people. By fighting those wars, we gain peace. The "peace movement" does not understand this. It would be nice to see a conservative talking about how ours actually is a real peace movement with real results.
The sad part to the whole Cindy Sheehan debacle is that her son is a hero. That her actions have taken attention away from the fact that her son served his country honorably and gave his life to it.
I just found it sad that she turned the death of her son into a political stunt.
Cindy's behavior has richly deserved the condemnations that have been hurled against it.
However, if she is truly going to withdraw from public view in order to seek healing and hopefully be delivered of the anger arising from unresolved grief that has torn her heart to shreds, then I wish her the best in that endeavor.
Redemption is available to us all - that is at the core of the Christian gospel.
Hopefully she can move on into a private life. She says she hasn't spent time with her other children. Maybe this would be a good time for her to invest her time and energy into them as well as to herself rather than to a political movement.
I still grieve for her for losing a son.
I don't agree with her or her actions, but it seems crass to call her a "media whore." Surely you can attack her actions and tactics with more style and grace.